Blaise Agüera y Arcas: disagreement

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…Absolutely fascinating. So you said there was a phase change which was quite sudden. Would David Krakauer acknowledge that as being a form of emergence? I think so. Yeah. I mean, I've actually never asked David that question. We we disagree on a lot of things AI related, but I I think he would acknowledge that this is a phase change and that it is an example of emergence. Yes. I think he would, because he he has a bunch of criteria, but 1 of them is is a fundamental coarse graining and reorganization of the micro substrate such that the new phenomena can be described with with a, you know, with within, you know, simple new variable. And this seem this seems to to to match that description. Is it possible that there's some kind of design bias or, you you know, like when we design machine learning architectures, there's so much information in the architecture. And and in this case, there's so much information in the brain fuck language and and and the terms and and so on. Could that have kind of influenced it to emerge in a certain way?…

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